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singulate

singulate adjective: pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).

Adjective

singulate (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
    • […]of the procedure in the present analysis is limited to a comparison of Hajnal’s “singulate” means for the 1948 and 1960 Census data.1966, Philippine Sociological Review, page 7
    • Quebec children left home slightly earlier than their Maritime counterparts: the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécoise women was 25 compared to 26 among Nova Scotian women, while the singulate mean age at marriage for Québécois men was 27 compared to 29 for men in Nova Scotia.2008, Lisa Yvette Dillon, “Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women”, in The Shady Side of Fifty: Age and Old Age in Late Victorian Canada and the United States, McGill-Queen’s...

Verb

singulate (third-person singular simple present singulates, present participle singulating, simple past and past participle singulated)

  1. To isolate from others; to separate off as a single item.
    • This device singulates the kernels permiting^([sic]) them to pass single file over a photo sensor (photodiode array) used to evaluate length.1980, Miscellaneous Publication, page 57
    • The fingers pick a fruit off at the joint of its peduncle after the suction cup singulates it by vacuum from other fruits in the same cluster.1998, M. Monta, N. Kondo, K.C. Ting, “End-Effectors for Tomato Harvesting Robot”, in S. Panigrahi, K.C. Ting, editors, Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture, Springer Science+Business...

Examples of singulate in a sentence

  • The same equivalence holds between singulate means (adding bars) and ordinary means (adding bands), whether we work with averages ₙSₓ or exact-age values sₓ.2014, Kenneth W. Wachter, Essential Demographic Methods, Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 211:
  • Cleans debris as it unscrambles & singulates logs2002, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, page 24:
  • Katz et al. [14] present an interactive segmentation algorithm to singulate cluttered objects using pushing and grasping.2020, Andreas Eitel, Nico Hauff, Wolfram Burgard, “Learning to Singulate Objects Using a Push Proposal Network”, in Nancy M. Amato, Greg...

Forms of singulate

third-person singular presentsingulates
present participlesingulating
past participlesingulated
pastsingulated

Words formed from singulate

  • SMAFM
  • SMAM

Questions about singulate

What does singulate mean?
Singulate means pertaining to being single (not in a marriage).
How do you use singulate in a sentence?
The same equivalence holds between singulate means (adding bars) and ordinary means (adding bands), whether we work with averages ₙSₓ or exact-age values sₓ.
What part of speech is singulate?
Singulate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near singulate in the dictionary

  1. singularizing
  2. singularly
  3. singularness
  4. singulars
  5. singulatarian
  6. singulate
  7. singulation
  8. singulations
  9. singulative
  10. singulatively
  11. singulatives

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